SPORTS BRIEFING | COLLEGE BASKETBALL; Rutgers Player Withdraws Suit

By JACQUES STEINBERG

Published: September 12, 2007

Kia Vaughn, the Rutgers women's basketball player who filed a defamation lawsuit last month against Don Imus and CBS Radio, among others, over his reference to the team as ''nappy-headed hos,'' has withdrawn her suit, according to a filing she made yesterday in state Supreme Court in the Bronx. ''Last week Kia Vaughn returned to Rutgers University to focus upon both her academic pursuits as a journalism major and upon her basketball team,'' Marti McKenzie, a spokeswoman for Vaughn's lawyer, Richard Ancowitz, said in a statement. ''Her strong commitments to both have influenced her decision to withdraw the lawsuit at this time.'' A lawyer for Imus, Martin Garbus, said yesterday that he had no comment, other than that Imus had paid no money to Vaughn.